‘First, Jeffrey Epstein and His Collaborators Violated These Women. Now, Republicans Are Violating Them.’ johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/first-jeff...
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‘First, Jeffrey Epstein and His Collaborators Violated These Women. Now, Republicans Are Violating Them.’ johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/first-jeff...
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And yet, they WILL tell females what they can't take out of their bodies, even if keeping it inside endangers their health or even kills them. Fuckin' ridiculous hypocrisy.
This guy is fucking nuts. I feel so sorry for the parents of school-age children in Florida.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Some judges say the Chief Justice should be doing more to defend the judiciary, with safety a top concern. "Somebody is going to die," one judge said. The Supreme Court has left lower court judges "thrown under the bus," another judge said.
It’s what Jesus would do
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RFK Jr: "We are the sickest country in the world. That's why we have to fire people at the CDC." (We are not the sickest country in the world.)
Pay very close attention. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files. Now that survivors are naming him as Epstein’s close friend, he’s calling it a “hoax.” Miss me with that bullshit.
One can only imagine what the victims and their families feel every time Trump calls Epstein’s crimes a hoax.
“They just see us as little toy soldiers to put on the street to show some muscle.” Alex, a National Guard recruiter who requested anonymity to speak freely, told Mother Jones that the DC mission has deterred potential recruits and pushed soldiers to their breaking points.
Let’s fight back, California. Yes on 50!
Unfit.
RFK Jr. will face "hard questions" over CDC shakeup, according to Thune. The Senate majority leader expressed frustration over the firings of recently confirmed officials.
Trump's hand was visibly discolored again today (Alex Wong/Getty)
Everyone tell Congress:
BREAKING: A bipartisan group of members of Congress have come to a compromise on a bill to ban congressional stock trading. This is a hugely popular reform and it's encouraging that Congress is finally listening. Now it's time to get it passed!
"Evidently China is farther along in its project than I realized, because Xi has reached the point where he no longer humors Trump. Which means that the Chinese believe America’s decline is terminal."
Republicans will try to rebrand and lie through their teeth about what's really in their big, ugly bill. No matter what they say, this is what their bill really does...
Personally I think it was the guy who was running the country. Whoever that was
“I Created a Thing Called Space Force" …and Gave It to Huntsville Because Nothing Says ‘Space Force’ Like Chick-fil-A and Football
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
In a metaphor that was too on-the-nose, there was a military flyover in Washington, D.C. that drowned out Epstein survivors who were speaking out. I'm happy to report they persisted.
The National Guard is, in some ways, a distraction. What's going to happen in Chicago is going to be a massive ICE enforcement blitz.
Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"
Man baby cries over party he’s not invited to.
Kristi Noem invited top officials from Argentina to the signing of a special new Visa Waiver program that would allow Argentinians to visit for up to 90 days without a visa, but she forgot to tell Lil' Marco, who promptly cancelled the whole thing and sent them home. www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...
Why are they trying to kill us? Especially the kids?! You'd think with their focus on people having more babies because of the dangers of low growth rates that they wouldn't go out of their way to kill off the kids who have already been born. Honestly IDK if this is dumbfounding stupidity or malice.
"The photo of the three dictators side-by-side, walking the red carpet in Tiananmen Square together...seemed to provide a bookend to the era MacArthur had ushered in eighty years before—an era in which United States leadership was central." That era is no more. www.thebulwark.com/p/putin-emba...
BOLLING: Trump can prove it's a hoax by releasing it. Let us decide if it's a hoax or not. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: It's not a hoax. BOLLING: You gotta give MAGA this.
Crime is happening somewhere! I scrolled by a carjacking snuff film that looked eerily like Russian dashcam footage but was labeled as "Deep Baltimore." But where I am? Lol no. No crime happening here. Anyway we must stop the crime that is constantly, vaguely happening in any and all elsewheres.
By all means, listen to the guy who says grocery prices are going down, the next time you buy a gallon of milk.
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
He is the worst, most dangerous, most unqualified cabinet member in American history. Nine former CDC directors and now over 1000 current and former HHS employees demand he resign over his gross incompetence. This maniac needs to quit or be replaced ASAP. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...
Yes!!!! Please!!!
Trump called republicans and threatened them not to sign the discharge petition to release the Epstein files saying he would consider it a "hostile act" against him.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
Both sides do it. So they'll never vote against it. Haven't all these years. "It's a big club and you ain't in it. They don't give a fuck at you... AT ALL...AT ALL... AT ALL" -George Carlin
The House and Senate are back in session this week. Who else thinks it's time to ban members of Congress from trading stocks?
Fuck Cruz. Such a POS. Why do fools keep voting for him?
Epstein survivors remind us that GOP stands for “Guardians of Pedophiles” My new article on the brave Epstein survivors who spoke out today on Capitol Hill. deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/epstein-su...
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"Trump is a professional huckster and profoundly lazy man. So instead of tending to his promises to working Americans, he entered office pursuing his own bizarre obsessions. He then proceeded to devise a series of Potemkin village-like distractions calculated to divert the nation’s attention."
Epstein survivor on Epstein: "His biggest brag forever was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump."
Hey MAGA, how does Trump go from "If I'm elected, I'll release the Epstein files" to The Epstein files are a "Democrat hoax" in 8 months? Explain it to me like I'm 10-years-old.
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Project 2025 crew was banking on large numbers of Black people being out in the streets ala Ferguson/George Floyd and that was going to be the pretext to declare martial law. We’re not playing ball and they’re getting impatient so now they’re sending troops to where we are.
I wish someone would confront him with the evidence that repeated COVID infections are known to cause chronic illness.
They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal
Real evil shit.
BREAKING: During Trump's second term, 72 civil servants with nearly 450 years of experience in government have publicly resigned in protest after being asked to do something they believed to be illegal or in violation of their oath of office.
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
What are they hiding? Public servants should face the public. Check out @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social's posters all around D.C. demanding that federal agents take off their masks.
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
Over the long weekend, the Trump administration quietly tried to deport 76 unaccompanied children to Guatemala – ignoring laws protecting such minors from speedy deportations. Thankfully, a federal judge blocked the effort. The cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.
this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker says the Trump administration has begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment to Illinois, and federal agencies will soon begin large-scale immigration raids in Chicago. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
We became this country last time Trump was president. And MAGA thinks it's fine.
Terrorizing immigrant communities is exactly what MAGA voted for.
Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."
The US military will conduct a flyover of the White House and wider DC at 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). Epstein’s victims will be holding a press conference on Capitol Hill around the same time.
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
"We should act like he's not joking... they're gonna try and manufacture some sort of a crisis." @keithellison.bsky.social, one of the only US politicians to predict a Trump win in 2015, agrees that Trump wants to stay in office beyond 2028, as a "dictator." Full intv: zeteo.com/p/keith-elli...
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
And of course his normalization of authoritarianism and military takeover of cities. That's the end game. Martial law and rigging elections. Power by any means necessary.
be loud for america is probably one of the most cogent things a dem politician has said in recent years
"The mood in Hungary is palpably different than it was a year ago. Not only is everyone talking about Péter Magyar, but people are also more comfortable criticizing Orbán in public." Orbán likes illiberal democracy; but the democracy part might still work.
Like a 1980s televangelist, Trump is now asking his supporters to send him $15 to help him get to Heaven. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
this is almost certainly under Title 32 authorities (meaning the TX guard will be nominally under TX state control but on a federal mission), meaning the posse comitatus issues that came up in California will not apply. that said, it raises a whole lot of other legal problems
Anyone else see the link between the rise in gun violence and the the oligarchic takeover? Poor people are pissed. Tax breaks for the rich. Make it make sense.
As we begin September, Democracy Docket is tracking 139 voting and election cases is 40 states. 13 in Georgia 13 in North Carolina 10 in Texas 9 in Arizona 8 in Pennsylvania 8 in Wisconsin Democracy is on the docket! www.democracydocket.com
Oligarchs financed GOP policy since Ragan. Stacked SC and state legislatures. We've hit warp speed for autocracy. Protests alone won't fix this. Where have the democratic oligarchs been for 40+ years? Do they exist? Or are they on the same team?
Oligarchs financed GOP policy since Ragan. Stacked SC and state legislatures. We've hit warp speed for autocracy. Protests alone won't fix this. Where have the democratic oligarchs been for 40+ years? Do they exist? Otherwise, we're doomed.
Oligarchs supported GOP policy since Ragan. Stacked SC and state legislatures. We've hit warp speed for autocracy. Where have the democratic oligarchs been for 40+ years? Do they exist? Otherwise, we're doomed.
Oligarchs supported GOP policy since Ragan. Stacked SC and state legislatures. We've hit warp speed for autocracy. Where have the democratic oligarchs been for 40+ years? Do they exist? Otherwise, we're doomed.
Pretty damn good campaign launch video from Paige Cognetti.
Countless Americans protested peacefully across the country yesterday. Like we’ve done in the past, we spent a lot of time gathering images to prove there were “Workers Over Billionaires” events in all 50 states and DC. Especially since corporate media coverage was abysmal.
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2025 LABOR DAY THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES To those of you who worked today, I thank you To those of you who MARCHED today, I thank you WE MUST FIGHT To those of you who resisted today, I thank you This is for you To bring a smile and one nut
A Tale of Two Governors: Confronting versus Dick-Wagging www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/02/a...
Happy first day of school, Minnesota!
Wes Moore is NOT playing: I am the Commander in Chief of the National Guard. I will not authorize the Maryland National Guard to be activated. THIS is how you fight back.
Trump is going to rename the Dept of Defense to the Department of WAR. Yet this is the same guy who wants the Nobel Peace prize! 🤣
Hypocrites. Every last MAGA 💩 is a hypocrite.
An officer briefly became the face of Trump’s brutality mandate in DC after popping up in various videos like federal Forrest Gump. @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated and found he’s a 26-year-old former Eagle Scout named Patrick O’Hanlon who says he was just doing his job. Our report:
Alabama town’s first Black mayor, Patrick Braxton, who had been locked out of office, wins election!! The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after residents locked him out of the town hall & refused to let him serve. www.cnn.com/2025/08/31/u...
If he departs this mortal sphere as I type this, it will do nothing to undo all the evil that his now bruised hands have wrought, to erase every vile thing his presence has exposed as he ascended politically. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-wis...
Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
I just hope they directly hear from some of Trumps victims!
New this week: Chicago likely has had fewer shootings through August year than any year since the mid-1960s. Gun violence remains a problem there, but I wrote about the city's encouraging trends and the data challenge of historically contextualizing this year. jasher.substack.com/p/contextual...
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
Maria Bartiromo to Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "You've got all these projects which are not necessarily projects that you can rely on. I mean, is the wind blowing? Is the sun shining? And yet hundreds of millions of dollars were going at these projects."